Conserving Energy

 

Step Away

A parable about helping others with their businesses:

If your friend's house is on fire but they’re not concerned, don’t waste your own water trying to put it out.

Multi-level Marketing

 

Red Flags

Multi-level marketing is more than just a way for moms to lose money.
It's an arena rife with fake experts, pseudoscience, bogus claims, parroted scripts, and grossly overpriced products you could find better versions of at Costco.

Manipulation is the name of the game—and they're good at it.
Really good.

They find your pain points and twist the screw as hard as they can.
It's a skill born of desperation.

The pitches are usually about money, time, freedom, weight, aging, or fear of deadly toxins.
One thing’s for sure: nothing else on the market works, and everything else causes cancer.

I mean, you don't want your kids to get cancer, do you?

And have you seen the photos of me with the new car, chartered jet, exclusive yacht, and private island?
None of them are mine, by the way—but shhh, you don't need to know that.

There are warning signs.
As soon as you hear phrases like “extra cash,” “side hustle,” “sign up three of your friends,” “be a product of the product”—and especially “all in”—there’s only one thing to do:

Run.

The Power of Water

Persuasion

Water didn't carve the Grand Canyon in a day. In fact, the desert floor initially said "no," in spite of its desperate thirst.

Water didn’t argue or take offense. It was patient, it was present, it was persistent in its own way.

Knowing that time is on its side, water waits for desire to overcome willpower.

Water doesn’t take no for an answer.

Attention

All press is good press.

The key to success is to get people talking about you...and talking, and talking, and talking.

It's easy to do in a country that prioritizes convenience over self-preservation and has a seriously entitled misunderstanding of the phrase "survival of the fittest." 

Complacently fat on junk food and reality TV - talking and talking.

It doesn't matter what's being said, just that the name is incessantly repeated.

Every conversation turned that way.

Every news story's inflammatory headline.

Every morning I think, Now what?

Talking and talking and even making signs.

They're right, of course. You should be concerned.

But more than that, unplug the television and put down the device. Go outside and have a genuine conversation with someone that does not involve the obligatory topic. You might be surprised by all the things you actually have in common.

The biggest threat is people who refuse to be played against one another.

If you wonder what the attention whore will do next, the answer is: whatever it takes to keep all eyes on them.

Games

 

Retreat

All relationships have rules but...

When the rules create an unwinnable game, it's time to walk away.